Latin America
These are the two dominant languages in Latin America
What is Spanish and Portuguese?
English is a dominant language around the world and has diffused easily globally due to this invention?
What is the internet?
Canada was colonized by these two European countries.
Who are the English and the French?
What is a monarchy?
This type of agriculture production is used only for family members or the local community, typically not for sale or marketized.
What is subsistence agriculture?
Venezuela has seen the toppling of their democratic government toward a more autocratic dictatorship and an economy of hyper inflation, all of which has caused an exodus of immigrants known as this (name two)?
Political and Economic Push factors
This is an example of cultural convergence in the United States found predominately is Pennsylvania, in which its members do not use modern technology do to their religious beliefs.
Who are the Amish?
Canada, like the United States, has this type of economic development.
What is a more developed country (MDC)?
This is a type of government where there is a single political party, media is often restricted, and power is centralized in the hands of a dictator.
What is a Totalitarian Dictatorship?
This revolution changed settlement patterns around the world from rural areas to urban areas
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This Latin America country has a famous canal which has helped economic globalization and cut down trading time between the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean, rather than going around Cape Horn.
What is Panama?
You can find the economic/technological hub of
Silicon Valley in this U.S. region.
What is the West?
Instead of states like the United States, the country of Canada is divided up politically into these type of units.
What are providences?
This is another name for a democratic type of government, which countries like the United States and Costa Rica have free elections, a constitution, and term limits.
What is a Democratic Republic / Federal Democratic Republic
This is the type of sustainable development which attracts people to Costa Rica in Central America for hiking, zip lines, etc.
What is a ecotourism?
Brazil in known for commercial agriculture in the Amazon Rainforest which is leading to deforestation for this cash crop (other than coffee).
What is sugar cane?
This type of infrastructure in the United States has helped expand western expansion and due to the invention of the automobile and urban sprawl was replaced by this (name both)
What is the railroad and interstate highways?
This the major economic sector of work in Canada
What is the service/tertiary sector?
Canada is this type of government.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
This is an aspect of Globalization where jobs our relocated from the companies country of origin to a new country for the exploitation of cheaper labor to maximize economic profits, often seen a negative aspect of globalization.
What is outsourcing?
This is an example of modification in the agribusiness in Latin America which allows for farming on mountainous terrains and for appropriate irrigation.
What is terrace farming?
While these have outsourced jobs to Mexico to increase profits in factories like Maquiladoras for cheaper labor, they have a tendency to bring in immigrants to the United States for better paying jobs and raise their standard of living; thus act as economic pull factors (name these companies overarching name)
Canada is part of this free trading bloc, along with the United States and Mexico, which reduces tariffs and makes goods more affordable in a globalized western hemisphere.
What is NAFTA?
This economic system has some economic competition but also allocates resources for it people to have access to public healthcare and education funded by the government, a good example is Sweden.
What is socialism?
This is the region in the United States where Tornado outbreaks are often experienced due to the convergence of low and high air pressure atmospheric systems, also known as Tornado Alley.
What is the Midwest/Great Plains?